Well this is garbage. The editor has been overwhelmed and our boss who sometimes helps with editing was out sick. So, there is a huge queue of projects that did not get edited before yesterday, the end of the month. They have hired more researchers but we only have one full-time editor and two freelancers and one of the freelancers has not been working much lately.

I had hoped, since this is not the researchers’ fault, that things we had sent to the editor before the end of the month, would still get counted towards our monthly stats. But, we were just informed that they won’t be. According to F, she has 32 projects (of 87) that are not edited and I have 39 (of 93)! The boss’s pets have 10 or less. It’s pretty clear that things are not being handled fairly and the editor is focusing on editing the things the boss’ pets send her and not our work and it is going to screw us over. There are projects I sent over a week that haven’t been edited yet.

I saved a copy of the editing queue to have proof all the things I sent but that weren’t edited by the end of the month. It has the dates I sent so it is clear that these were sitting around for a while. I am not going to sit down and take it if they try to question my performance this month. If it comes to escalating to her boss, I am going to have to consider it.